Yup.
Joe Perry plays an off the rack perry/slashburts RI, as well as a '93 RI.

Since the early '80's, they(mostly Brad) has always played the latest RI. FWIW, the ones they had in the early/mid '90's sounded great. I guess thats why Joe still plays his.

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You probably know this, but the early 90s were regarded as the "good wood" years for Gibson. It's no coincidence that you feel that early 90s Aerosmith guitar tone sounds glorious.

IMHO it's all about the wood, I don't care about what ONE kit guitar builder keeps on harping about. Maybe with those "tinny" sounding bolt ons (lynard skynard guitarist's description, not mine) wood quality may not matter, but with set necks it makes all the difference IME.

You probably know this, but the early 90s were regarded as the "good wood" years for Gibson. It's no coincidence that you feel that early 90s Aerosmith guitar tone sounds glorious.

IMHO it's all about the wood, I don't care about what ONE kit guitar builder keeps on harping about. Maybe with those "tinny" sounding bolt ons (lynard skynard guitarist's description, not mine) wood quality may not matter, but with set necks it makes all the difference IME.

I don't mean to be a d-bag, but what is the point of the question? R8s and R9s are obviously professional standard instruments. Buying the same drive pedal as Jeff Beck or the same pickups as Mark Knopfler is not even going to get you 10% of the way to their "tone" as you hear it on a record through racks of compressors, eq units and mixdowns, even for live stuff. You want to sound like Jeff Beck? Either buy a recording studio and play through headphones your entire life or get any old mic'd up amp running through a 100kW PA system. In reality if you want to sound like these guys use whatever you have and keep practicing!

I don't mean to be a d-bag, but what is the point of the question? R8s and R9s are obviously professional standard instruments. Buying the same drive pedal as Jeff Beck or the same pickups as Mark Knopfler is not even going to get you 10% of the way to their "tone" as you hear it on a record through racks of compressors, eq units and mixdowns, even for live stuff. You want to sound like Jeff Beck? Either buy a recording studio and play through headphones your entire life or get any old mic'd up amp running through a 100kW PA system. In reality if you want to sound like these guys use whatever you have and keep practicing!

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OK, hold on a minute. That is nothing but solid and sound logic. That type of reasoning simply will not fly here on The Gear Page.

I don't mean to be a d-bag, but what is the point of the question? R8s and R9s are obviously professional standard instruments. Buying the same drive pedal as Jeff Beck or the same pickups as Mark Knopfler is not even going to get you 10% of the way to their "tone" as you hear it on a record through racks of compressors, eq units and mixdowns, even for live stuff. You want to sound like Jeff Beck? Either buy a recording studio and play through headphones your entire life or get any old mic'd up amp running through a 100kW PA system. In reality if you want to sound like these guys use whatever you have and keep practicing!

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I didn't say anything about wanting to copy other players sounds? This is The Gear Page and we're just discussing gear.